Hi,
I want to p-lock pitch modulation (smooth vibrato, like a classic tracker effect) on a melodic audio track, how would you do it?
Triangle LFO on sample pitch, then p-lock depth? Would this produce a smooth modulation or would it produce half tone steps?
Triangle LFO on sample rate? But then by default it’s only modulated half of the LFO period because rate is 63 by default, and can’t go higher.
Other ideas?
Cheers!
Yeah just throw an LFO at the pitch, it’s smooth.
Nice, I’ll try that tonight 
And I guess it’s limited by the two octave range, but for small modulation it’s only a concern for two notes in the range (the lowest octave’s lowest note or the highest octave’s highest note) so in most cases it’s just not an issue.
Try turning off timestretch too (with lfo to pitch)…
The designer LFO is your friend here. You can fine tune the values from -128 to 0 to 128 to scale the ammount (128 being the value you input) so 1 would do half step modulation, anything below will have smaller effect.
Yep. And you can also do faster lfos with it, for fm sounds.
It works great, thanks!
Using trigless locks on LFO depth, I can p-lock classic tracker vibrato effects anywhere on the track. Or p-lock LFO depth in a scene for live expressiveness.
What I’ missing now is the old tracker chord effect for large ascending intervals. Square LFO on pitch works, but for a 8ve chord effects it limits the octave range from the two available octaves to only one (because both root note and chord note are bounded by the two octaves range). Any idea to bypass this limitation?
Maybe: use a higher octave sample, and use rate modulation instead of pitch modulation, choosing the highest note of the chord as rate = 63 (default), and lowest note rate = 32 (one octave lower IIRC)?
Or use rate modulation like above, and always use descending intervals in order to keep the two octaves pitch range? For example use a descending 4th instead of an ascending 5th.
(That would be with tstr: “off” and rate: “ptch” on the playback setup page I guess.)
You might try using 1 LFO for pitch mod, and another LFO at a different phase and speed for rate control?
Thanks, I tried, nice option for sound design!
If I understand, I could draw 8 triangle periods in the LFO designer, so it can go 8 times faster than a regular 1 period “x 64” triangle LFO. That would be a “x 512” triangle LFO equivalent.
Unbelievable - here I was for years thinking I could not achieve ‘smooth’ vibrato/warble/wow and all I had to do was turn the timestretchhhhhhhhhhh off